Tony McGuinness

Anthony Patrick James McGuinness is a British trance musician. He is known for being in the electronic music group Above & Beyond. He is also a guitarist and songwriter of the indie band Sad Lovers & Giants.

Biography Tony McGuinness plays guitar with English indie band Sad Lovers & Giants, He won awards for his campaigns for Madonna, R.E.M., Mike Oldfield, and Simply Red. While working at Warner, McGuinness shifted away from alternative rock towards electronic dance music. He worked as A&R for a number of dance artists, including William Orbit and Hysteric Ego. McGuinness and his brother Liam teamed up to create electronic dance music under the alias Nitromethane in the early 2000s.

While still working at Warner, McGuinness was asked to remix Chakra's "Home". McGuinness approached Anjunabeats (Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamäki) to work on the remix together. The collaboration led to the creation of Above & Beyond, consisting of McGuinness, Grant, and Siljamäki.

In 2024 McGuinness released the solo rock album Salt, which he had written 30 years previously in the 1990s.

Remixes 2000 What It Feels Like for a Girl (as Above & Beyond) 2002 M (as Above & Beyond) 2004 Sand in My Shoes / Don't Leave Home (as Above & Beyond) 2006 Black Is the Colour (as Above & Beyond) 2007 Home (as Tony)

Anjunabeats: 2003 Anjunabeats Volume One 2004 Anjunabeats Volume Two 2005 Anjunabeats Volume Three 2006 Anjunabeats Volume Four 2007 Anjunabeats Volume Five 2008 Anjunabeats100 + From Goa to Rio 2008 Anjunabeats Volume Six 2009 Anjunadeep:01 2009 Anjunabeats Volume 7 2010 Anjunabeats Volume 8 2011 10 Years of Anjunabeats

Albums

Albums with Above & Beyond: 2006 Tri-State 2008 Sirens of the Sea (as Above & Beyond presents OceanLab) 2011 Group Therapy 2014 Above & Beyond Acoustic 2015 We Are All We Need 2018 Common Ground 2025 Bigger Than All Of Us

Solo: 2024 Salt

Other productions Upon becoming a member of the band Sad Lovers & Giants in 1986, Tony McGuinness had a successful career in the music industry. Their discography includes the following albums: 1988 Epic Garden Music 1988 Feeding the Flame 1988 Les Années Vertes 1988 Sleep / A Reflected Dream 1988 The Mirror Test 1990 Headland 1991 Les Années Vertes 1991 Treehouse Poetry 1996 The Best of E-Mail from Eternity 1999 La Dolce Vita (Live in Lausanne) 2000 Headland & Treehouse Poetry 2002 Melting in the Fullness of Time 2018 Mission Creep

As a part of Oceanlab, Above & Beyond, Anjunabeats, Rollerball and Tranquility Base, Tony McGuinness produced numerous tracks as a team under the label Anjunabeats.